Japan is the country that did it best, though - government insurance with private providers. I don't think the US is capable of pulling it off Japan-style because that would require looking at how someone else did it, and doing it the exact same way with no modifications. That means no handouts to existing insurance companies, no handouts to unions looking to run new government hospitals. Our government is incapable of solving a problem without scratching some backs, and that back scratching is why we have Obamacare instead of Medicare for all.
For every Japan there is a Venezuela, not all UHC solutions were created equal.
I want to be supportive of this, but if it's anything like his grandiose schemes to fix Puerto Rico's power problems, it's going to be a lot of talk and no action, or at best "a day late and a dollar short".
There's a middle ground between a quick dialog box and requiring people to root their phone in order to add a root certificate.
In any case what I mean about adding a root is adding your own root certificate, not random ones. Right now if I sign certs using our internal CA, they show up just as illegitimate as ones signed by random dude on the internet. People are thus trained that when visiting internal websites from their phones they must click through cert errors. Train them well enough to ignore cert errors and the cert error ceases to have meaning.
The 2nd Amendment is America's stopgap towards the true death of Liberty. If things ever got to the book burning history-rewriting phase, there'd be another revolution (likely with the help of members of the military - sworn to uphold the constitution and all that). The leader of the military is the President, but what if the top generals simply said no? And the best encouragement of that no response is having to gun down the very people you're supposed to be protecting.
The worst part is the sheer volume of information collected is detrimental towards pro-active use of it (eg:Parkland shooter) and that leaves only the negative sides of it - person X is in a position to uproot the establishment, let us find all we can about person X and bury them via things they've said/done in their past.
So the listening devices will never be used to catch potential criminals, just enemies of the state, and the company gathering the data.
And yet people clamor for all-encompassing big governments. Right now all that info belongs only to the NSA, CIA, and other shadowy government organizations. If they had legitimate access to all this stuff they wouldn't even need parallel reconstruction to hang someone inconvenient. Someone who in college drunkenly searched for bomb making guides on a dare from their friends ten years later runs for office....
Must be written by a millennial. Growing up pre-smartphone we read books, newspapers, played board games or stared out the window. This isn't a problem to be solved, it's an evolved improvement. We can do all those things in a fraction of a time compared to the previous mode switching required. Setting up an old fashioned board game requires 10 minutes or so, there's always bitching about cheating, modern technology solves all of that. Looking out the window at something interesting required going somewhere, and usually spending money. Now there's Youtube. My dad who hasn't left his town in over a decade due to being traumatized by 9/11 (saw the 2nd plane hit in person from his office) enjoys screens as a way of exploring the world without being exposed to danger.
This is not to say there aren't benefits to improved voice assistants. But screens are fine. And honestly if ads shift to "these movie times for Inifinity Wars are brought to you by Coca-Cola" prompts from the voice assistant, that's not so terrible either. Radio has ads too, after all.
I wonder if that's a related issue, I never checked to see if it was already running. And who the hell wants it running in the background? It's a 400kb exe, it loads instantly!
This area is where I'm hoping Google's move helps fix these flaws. Using custom certificates shouldn't be so damn hard, in some cases borderline impossible. If the predominate browser starts forcing https, I am hoping hw mfgrs will make this easier (both server side such as routers and vendor-lockin software, as well as client side such as Android and iOS smartphones).
The work-provided smartphones already have our internal CA. I completely agree that this is a fail for smartphones in general - fortunately chrome isn't the only browser on those, for now. I am hoping though that as the web moves more and more towards https, smartphones will improve their ability to add custom CAs to the root store.
As for less technical uses operating a root CA, this too is a problem. Router mfgrs shouldn't be so cavalier about providing shitty certs, though. You've spent x$ on the blasted thing, surely them providing a "consumerrouter.netgear.com" domain name (or whatever) with valid cert that is served off the router itself should be included with the purchase price (the router intercepts the DNS anyway, it can alter it so that the admin page gets one that is specific to the configured environment).
This is also a complaint I have with major software distributors - why does VMWare, IBM, Oracle, etc get away with distributing invalid self-signed certificates then make it so hard that it's practically an unsupported operation to try and change them to something valid??
I had but was always curfued indoors at night, or in college and too busy doing schoolwork at night. I'd also been to northern NJ but light pollution doesn't respect political boundaries. So finally it was walking home from the bus from work that got me to look up and see the awesomeness of the true night sky.
You can't see stars in major cities anyway, may as well have a pretty night skyline. Many nights the sky has a constant orange glow.
When I moved to my non-major city I freaked out the first time I looked up at night from a random street with no streetlights and saw stars... it took me a few seconds to realize what they were. I don't think I'd ever noticed stars (aside from the sun) in person until that moment, which was after I could legally drink. Makes me wonder how many people have never seen them "live" in their entire life.
I wasn't the only one, but after a recent large update, no one at work had a functioning windows calculator - it was gone from the start menu, and running calc.exe resulted in nothing. I thought our IT department had f-'d up, but no, I saw the same complaints online. How do you break calculator??
If anyone is wondering the fix is some sort of powershell command to remove the "windows feature" of calculator, then re-add it from the Windows Store. Obviously only works for those with admin rights to their machine...
His show was excellent when it was non-partisan. And even during the election, I liked his criticism of Trump, because it seemed well researched, accurate and on-point. However I hated his thinly veiled support for Hillary. Even his attempt at balancing it out felt weak, because you could still tell he took a side. He pissed on the third party candidates as well, despite them having no chance, in an effort to redirect support towards Hillary. It was then that I decided he can't be trusted anymore.
However, I've never seen a case where the union didn't side with the employee.
That's what makes Amazon's approach a great middle ground. It's difficult to fire union employees unless they are probationary new employees. A manager co-worker of mine will therefore put all her new staff through hell to make damn sure they're not duds before they pass.
The flip side though is that a functioning union combined with attentive management can block the peter principle. Since a promoted probationary employee who fails goes back to their previous position automatically, someone promoted to a level of incompetence doesn't stay there for long.
This is a far better solution than limiting what can/can't be automated. Though I would say to do it as follows: 1. European/Australian style mandatory minimum vacation times, and requiring people to take them. This results in requiring staffing a minimum of 3 people capable to handle every task (can be accomplished via overlapping duties), since at any given moment 1 may be on vacation, and 1 may need to call in sick, quit, etc. 2. Reduce workweek to 32 (or 30) hours. Definition of "part time" reduced to people working under 24 (or 22.5) hours. 3. Remove non-managerial overtime exemptions. Yes this would mean skilled professional workers such as doctors earning OT. I don't see anything wrong with that. 4. Increase OT earnings only if OT is systemically abused.
I stand corrected. I Looked back into it and it appears I had out of date info - while China was considered the favorite for quite a few years, DB (Germany) ultimately won the contract. A Chinese company had also formed a partnership to build part of the LA to Vegas high speed rail but cancelled the partnership due to the requirement that the trains be built here.
Many heroin addicts started out as legitimate opioid users, whose supply was cut off as part of "reducing the opiod epidemic". The safer, less potent pharmaceutical types (Oxycodone, Vicodin) are more expensive on the black market than heroin. People turn to heroin because it's cheap - try legalizing the schedule II stuff first and see where that leads.
Tokyo is a good example of high density housing supporting high density jobs. An apartment in Tokyo is affordable to a single middle-income individual/household. This is because every "suburban" (can they really be called that anymore?) train station is surrounded by apartment towers, with densities reducing the further from the station people get.
Compare to NYC area, where everyone fought tooth and nail to keep their suburban towns "picturesque" resulting in commuter rail stations being dominated by low density housing, single business commercial buildings, and parking lots. While Long Island has geological limitations to building height, there's no reason for Westchester County and NJ to have low density housing next to commuter rail.
They need to raise the deposit fee, it has not kept up with inflation at all (it was implemented what, 25 years ago?). I find it hard to justify washing and returning the bottles and cans for a nickel, and usually just toss them in my regular recycling (which I suspect just goes to landfill anyway). 20 cents per container should be good for the next 2 decades or so. They should also stop specifying based on what is inside the container - why is iced tea and powerade deposit-free while similar containers for soda and water have the fee?
As an aside, Quebec has fees that vary based on container (nickel for a small can, dime for a glass bottle, 20 cents for a large can).
You see, if the knife has a wooden handle, it's a standard cooking knife. However, if it has a black metal handle, it is a fully-automatic tactical assault knife and must be destroyed immediately.
I've had free refills in both Canadian and Australian restaurants. In Asia it's practically unheard of, and the few places that do offer it is specifically mentioned in the menu.
From what I'm reading here it seems Europe is stingy on the non-alcoholic drink front.
Not sure who makes them but for a few years I ate at a cafeteria that had biodegradable knives/forks/spoons which felt more substantial than the normal plastic ones. It felt like a win/win - better for the environment and nicer quality single use cutlery.
Just went with the defaults. ~600 VMs. Ext4 I recall would have maybe 5-6 files corrupted during an interrupted update. With XFS there were so many that the only solution was to use the update logs from the bad system (to see how far yum thinks it got), then make a tar of those files from a system that updated properly, then untar them over / on the screwed up system.
As for why I had so many interrupted updates, with 600 VMs every so often one of the handful clustered with a fencing agent would accidentally be updated without having been first put into maintenance mode. Its buddies then force power cycled it when the clustering packages were being updated, therefore guaranteeing that the most likely time the server would have an abrupt power cycle would be during a yum update.
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Japan is the country that did it best, though - government insurance with private providers. I don't think the US is capable of pulling it off Japan-style because that would require looking at how someone else did it, and doing it the exact same way with no modifications. That means no handouts to existing insurance companies, no handouts to unions looking to run new government hospitals. Our government is incapable of solving a problem without scratching some backs, and that back scratching is why we have Obamacare instead of Medicare for all.
For every Japan there is a Venezuela, not all UHC solutions were created equal.
I want to be supportive of this, but if it's anything like his grandiose schemes to fix Puerto Rico's power problems, it's going to be a lot of talk and no action, or at best "a day late and a dollar short".
There's a middle ground between a quick dialog box and requiring people to root their phone in order to add a root certificate.
In any case what I mean about adding a root is adding your own root certificate, not random ones. Right now if I sign certs using our internal CA, they show up just as illegitimate as ones signed by random dude on the internet. People are thus trained that when visiting internal websites from their phones they must click through cert errors. Train them well enough to ignore cert errors and the cert error ceases to have meaning.
The 2nd Amendment is America's stopgap towards the true death of Liberty. If things ever got to the book burning history-rewriting phase, there'd be another revolution (likely with the help of members of the military - sworn to uphold the constitution and all that). The leader of the military is the President, but what if the top generals simply said no? And the best encouragement of that no response is having to gun down the very people you're supposed to be protecting.
The worst part is the sheer volume of information collected is detrimental towards pro-active use of it (eg:Parkland shooter) and that leaves only the negative sides of it - person X is in a position to uproot the establishment, let us find all we can about person X and bury them via things they've said/done in their past.
So the listening devices will never be used to catch potential criminals, just enemies of the state, and the company gathering the data.
And yet people clamor for all-encompassing big governments. Right now all that info belongs only to the NSA, CIA, and other shadowy government organizations. If they had legitimate access to all this stuff they wouldn't even need parallel reconstruction to hang someone inconvenient. Someone who in college drunkenly searched for bomb making guides on a dare from their friends ten years later runs for office....
Must be written by a millennial. Growing up pre-smartphone we read books, newspapers, played board games or stared out the window. This isn't a problem to be solved, it's an evolved improvement. We can do all those things in a fraction of a time compared to the previous mode switching required. Setting up an old fashioned board game requires 10 minutes or so, there's always bitching about cheating, modern technology solves all of that. Looking out the window at something interesting required going somewhere, and usually spending money. Now there's Youtube. My dad who hasn't left his town in over a decade due to being traumatized by 9/11 (saw the 2nd plane hit in person from his office) enjoys screens as a way of exploring the world without being exposed to danger.
This is not to say there aren't benefits to improved voice assistants. But screens are fine. And honestly if ads shift to "these movie times for Inifinity Wars are brought to you by Coca-Cola" prompts from the voice assistant, that's not so terrible either. Radio has ads too, after all.
I wonder if that's a related issue, I never checked to see if it was already running. And who the hell wants it running in the background? It's a 400kb exe, it loads instantly!
This area is where I'm hoping Google's move helps fix these flaws. Using custom certificates shouldn't be so damn hard, in some cases borderline impossible. If the predominate browser starts forcing https, I am hoping hw mfgrs will make this easier (both server side such as routers and vendor-lockin software, as well as client side such as Android and iOS smartphones).
The work-provided smartphones already have our internal CA. I completely agree that this is a fail for smartphones in general - fortunately chrome isn't the only browser on those, for now. I am hoping though that as the web moves more and more towards https, smartphones will improve their ability to add custom CAs to the root store.
As for less technical uses operating a root CA, this too is a problem. Router mfgrs shouldn't be so cavalier about providing shitty certs, though. You've spent x$ on the blasted thing, surely them providing a "consumerrouter.netgear.com" domain name (or whatever) with valid cert that is served off the router itself should be included with the purchase price (the router intercepts the DNS anyway, it can alter it so that the admin page gets one that is specific to the configured environment).
This is also a complaint I have with major software distributors - why does VMWare, IBM, Oracle, etc get away with distributing invalid self-signed certificates then make it so hard that it's practically an unsupported operation to try and change them to something valid??
I had but was always curfued indoors at night, or in college and too busy doing schoolwork at night. I'd also been to northern NJ but light pollution doesn't respect political boundaries. So finally it was walking home from the bus from work that got me to look up and see the awesomeness of the true night sky.
That's what a trusted internal root certificate is for. Add your organization (home) certificate signer to your root CA store.
You can't see stars in major cities anyway, may as well have a pretty night skyline. Many nights the sky has a constant orange glow.
When I moved to my non-major city I freaked out the first time I looked up at night from a random street with no streetlights and saw stars... it took me a few seconds to realize what they were. I don't think I'd ever noticed stars (aside from the sun) in person until that moment, which was after I could legally drink. Makes me wonder how many people have never seen them "live" in their entire life.
I wasn't the only one, but after a recent large update, no one at work had a functioning windows calculator - it was gone from the start menu, and running calc.exe resulted in nothing. I thought our IT department had f-'d up, but no, I saw the same complaints online. How do you break calculator??
If anyone is wondering the fix is some sort of powershell command to remove the "windows feature" of calculator, then re-add it from the Windows Store. Obviously only works for those with admin rights to their machine...
But yeah. What next, break paint and notepad??
His show was excellent when it was non-partisan. And even during the election, I liked his criticism of Trump, because it seemed well researched, accurate and on-point. However I hated his thinly veiled support for Hillary. Even his attempt at balancing it out felt weak, because you could still tell he took a side. He pissed on the third party candidates as well, despite them having no chance, in an effort to redirect support towards Hillary. It was then that I decided he can't be trusted anymore.
However, I've never seen a case where the union didn't side with the employee.
That's what makes Amazon's approach a great middle ground. It's difficult to fire union employees unless they are probationary new employees. A manager co-worker of mine will therefore put all her new staff through hell to make damn sure they're not duds before they pass.
The flip side though is that a functioning union combined with attentive management can block the peter principle. Since a promoted probationary employee who fails goes back to their previous position automatically, someone promoted to a level of incompetence doesn't stay there for long.
This is a far better solution than limiting what can/can't be automated. Though I would say to do it as follows:
1. European/Australian style mandatory minimum vacation times, and requiring people to take them. This results in requiring staffing a minimum of 3 people capable to handle every task (can be accomplished via overlapping duties), since at any given moment 1 may be on vacation, and 1 may need to call in sick, quit, etc.
2. Reduce workweek to 32 (or 30) hours. Definition of "part time" reduced to people working under 24 (or 22.5) hours.
3. Remove non-managerial overtime exemptions. Yes this would mean skilled professional workers such as doctors earning OT. I don't see anything wrong with that.
4. Increase OT earnings only if OT is systemically abused.
I stand corrected. I Looked back into it and it appears I had out of date info - while China was considered the favorite for quite a few years, DB (Germany) ultimately won the contract. A Chinese company had also formed a partnership to build part of the LA to Vegas high speed rail but cancelled the partnership due to the requirement that the trains be built here.
Many heroin addicts started out as legitimate opioid users, whose supply was cut off as part of "reducing the opiod epidemic". The safer, less potent pharmaceutical types (Oxycodone, Vicodin) are more expensive on the black market than heroin. People turn to heroin because it's cheap - try legalizing the schedule II stuff first and see where that leads.
Tokyo is a good example of high density housing supporting high density jobs. An apartment in Tokyo is affordable to a single middle-income individual/household. This is because every "suburban" (can they really be called that anymore?) train station is surrounded by apartment towers, with densities reducing the further from the station people get.
Compare to NYC area, where everyone fought tooth and nail to keep their suburban towns "picturesque" resulting in commuter rail stations being dominated by low density housing, single business commercial buildings, and parking lots. While Long Island has geological limitations to building height, there's no reason for Westchester County and NJ to have low density housing next to commuter rail.
Nor should anything Chinese be part of our infrastructure.
Tell that to California's High Speed Rail project.
They need to raise the deposit fee, it has not kept up with inflation at all (it was implemented what, 25 years ago?). I find it hard to justify washing and returning the bottles and cans for a nickel, and usually just toss them in my regular recycling (which I suspect just goes to landfill anyway). 20 cents per container should be good for the next 2 decades or so. They should also stop specifying based on what is inside the container - why is iced tea and powerade deposit-free while similar containers for soda and water have the fee?
As an aside, Quebec has fees that vary based on container (nickel for a small can, dime for a glass bottle, 20 cents for a large can).
You see, if the knife has a wooden handle, it's a standard cooking knife. However, if it has a black metal handle, it is a fully-automatic tactical assault knife and must be destroyed immediately.
I've had free refills in both Canadian and Australian restaurants. In Asia it's practically unheard of, and the few places that do offer it is specifically mentioned in the menu.
From what I'm reading here it seems Europe is stingy on the non-alcoholic drink front.
Not sure who makes them but for a few years I ate at a cafeteria that had biodegradable knives/forks/spoons which felt more substantial than the normal plastic ones. It felt like a win/win - better for the environment and nicer quality single use cutlery.
Just went with the defaults. ~600 VMs. Ext4 I recall would have maybe 5-6 files corrupted during an interrupted update. With XFS there were so many that the only solution was to use the update logs from the bad system (to see how far yum thinks it got), then make a tar of those files from a system that updated properly, then untar them over / on the screwed up system.
As for why I had so many interrupted updates, with 600 VMs every so often one of the handful clustered with a fencing agent would accidentally be updated without having been first put into maintenance mode. Its buddies then force power cycled it when the clustering packages were being updated, therefore guaranteeing that the most likely time the server would have an abrupt power cycle would be during a yum update.